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Correspondence: D. R. Bryson to Zebulon Weaver, May 2, 1926

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Correspondence: D. R. Bryson to Zebulon Weaver, May 2, 1926

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Correspondence: D. R. Bryson to Zebulon Weaver, May 2, 1926

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  • D. R. Bryson, BRYSON CITY, K. C.\ ) 1 5/2,26. Hon. Zebulon Weaver, Washington, D.C. Dear Friend; We appreciate very much your staying on the job in Washington and helping out on our park proposition. I certainly think you are not suffering for it and that in this section it is certainly making you friends. Now we understand that the bills are being held up in committee awaiting the return of Sec. Works. Please let me know What yOU knOW abOUt thiS. Copyrighted Material Western Carolina University The action of the state rjem« convention should give us a big boost as it assures them up there that N.C. will surely do its part handsomely at the next session of the legislature. Now one thing you may have called their attention to, but which I have not seen stressed is the conservation of water supply especially in Tenn. and Muscle shoals. You can see if you take a map that the Tenn. River in Tenn. gets most of its supply from the western dide of the Smoky Mts. Also that the Tuckaseegee and little Tenn. Rivers on this side which run into the Tenn. are almost wholely dependant on the Smokies for water sheds. Now if the timber is cut off and not preserved in the Smokies the water will be vety much affected in this section and Western Tenn. and consequently the water supply to Muscle Shoals. Also with the deforestation comes erosion and siltage which the engineers tell us is the greatest enemy of water powers fromfilling the dams. It seems that this should be a great interest to all interested in development and conservation of water power and affects not only the South and East, but the whole U.S.
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